A payment that shortens or ends a mortgage, thereby paying off the entire debt.
www.sun-sentinel.com/classified/realestate/mortgage/sfl-glo...

To cut short the Trip by returning Home earlier than the planned date of return.
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A notice issued by a utility to a customer with interruptible service to stop or reduce the use of its product (gas or electricity) during peak system usage periods.
www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/phecc/definitions.cfm

An additional payment made to reduce the principal balance of a loan.
www.ucop.edu/facil/olp/glossary.html

A reduction in gas deliveries or gas sales necessitated by a shortage of supply.
www.mge.com/about/gas/glossary.htm

Reduction of gas deliveries due to a shortage of supply or because demand for service exceeds a pipeline's capacity. Usually there is a hierarchy of customers, in which some may be required to partially or totally cut back takes of gas before others. ...
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A reduction in service or sales lower than the contracted level.
naturalgas.conocophillips.com/risk/glossary/C.htm

A change to a plan that reduces benefits or contributions.
www.foundationfinancialinc.com/glossary.htm

the temporal property of being cut short
suppression: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
retrenchment: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable
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Babyon:
curtailment

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Noun
1. the temporal property of being cut short